---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000092122-22-000031"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SO"
cik: "0000092122"
company_name: "SOUTHERN CO"
filed_at: "2022-05-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T06:07:13.214226+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southern Company shareholders elect all 13 directors; say-on-pay, auditor, and simple majority vote approved

## Summary
- All 13 director nominees elected with 93.28% to 99.23% of votes cast.
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with 94.53% of votes cast (653.9M for, 37.8M against).
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as auditor for 2022 passed with 97.78% of votes cast (863.4M for).
- Stockholder proposal for simple majority vote passed with 98.41% of votes cast.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000092122-22-000031
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SO
- cik: 0000092122
- company_name: SOUTHERN CO
- filed_at: 2022-05-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212222000031/0000092122-22-000031-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212222000031/so-20220525.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-22-000031.txt

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